# Vendor Squeezer

> The vendor and contract overview a business leader can actually use. See every vendor, contract, renewal date, and cost you are responsible for in one organized place.

Vendor Squeezer is a vendor and contract overview for the person accountable for the budget, not for a procurement team. It is not a system of record and does not replace finance or procurement software.

## Key facts

- Category: vendor management software for business leaders. A register of the vendors, contracts, renewal dates, costs and exit terms under one leader's budget.
- Built for: the budget-owning leader (a CEO, division director or functional head), not a procurement or vendor-management team.
- Data in: upload a contract PDF, paste a confirmation email, type it in, or send it from an agent over MCP. Extraction proposes fields with their source text; a person confirms before anything is recorded.
- Integrations: none needed. It works without a finance, procurement or contract management system.
- Renewals: ordered by the last day to act, with what can still be done (give notice, renegotiate, let it lapse).
- Spend: committed spend split into forecastable, variable and pricing not recorded, per currency, counting a master agreement's statements of work once.
- Pricing: a free plan for one budget-owning leader; paid plans charge per budget-owning leader. Contributors, viewers, finance partners and vendor-management contacts are free.
- Availability: early access by invitation. Join the waitlist at https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/waitlist.
- Agents: an MCP server at https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp; sensitive changes an agent makes are proposals a person approves.
- Contact: support@vendorsqueezer.com.

The full text of the product, solution, contract type, tool and guide pages is at https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/llms-full.txt.

## What this site is authoritative about

Contract structures and the questions a buyer should ask about their own agreements: term shapes, notice periods, exit terms, pricing models, and which document in a relationship carries the commercial commitment.

## What this site does not claim

- No named vendor's prices, contract terms, renewal behaviour, or negotiation positions. Those facts are not held here, so they are not published here.
- No customer counts, savings figures, testimonials, or availability claims. The product is pre-launch.
- Nothing on this site is legal advice. The guides describe common structures, not any particular agreement.

## Guides

- [What you are actually committed to with a vendor](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides): The hub: term shapes, notice periods, exit terms, and how the cost of a multi-year deal changes over its life. Hub for every guide below.

### Term and commitment shape

How long an agreement runs, how it ends, and what leaving costs.

- [Fixed term vs evergreen contracts](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/fixed-term-vs-evergreen-contracts): One ends on a date, the other ends when someone stops it. Telling them apart changes which field on your record is blank on purpose.
- [Rolling terms and automatic renewal](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/rolling-terms-and-automatic-renewal): The agreement renews itself in periods. Your decision point is the notice deadline before each period ends, not the renewal date.
- [Notice periods explained](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/notice-periods-explained): The gap between saying you are leaving and actually leaving. Counted from the wrong day, it is worth nothing.
- [Termination for convenience](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/termination-for-convenience): The right to leave without anyone being at fault. Its absence is a commitment in itself, and worth recording as one.
- [Early termination charges](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/early-termination-charges): Leaving early is often permitted and rarely free. How the charge is usually calculated, and what to record.
- [Perpetual licences and annual support](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/perpetual-licences-and-annual-support): The licence never expires. The support agreement attached to it usually renews annually, and that is the part with a deadline.

### Renewal timing

Turning contract dates into decisions someone can still make.

- [Contract end date vs action deadline](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/contract-end-date-vs-action-deadline): The end date is information. The action deadline is the date you can still do something about, and it is earlier.
- [What happens when a notice window closes](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/what-happens-when-a-notice-window-closes): The next term starts on its stated terms. What remains is a commercial conversation rather than a contractual right.
- [Renewal chains and superseding contracts](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/renewal-chains-and-superseding-contracts): A renewed agreement leaves a trail of documents. Knowing which one governs today, and keeping the rest, are different jobs.
- [Running a renewal review](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/running-a-renewal-review): A sequence you can run on any agreement: deadline first, commitment second, what changes third, decision last.

### Cost shape and forecasting

What is being bought, how it is charged, and how that moves over time.

- [Pricing models explained](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/pricing-models-explained): Fixed, per unit, usage-based, tiered, hybrid, time and materials, milestone. What each makes predictable, and what it does not.
- [Per seat vs usage-based pricing](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/per-seat-vs-usage-based-pricing): One is predictable and drifts with headcount. The other follows consumption and cannot be forecast from the document.
- [Minimum commitments and true-ups](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/minimum-commitments-and-true-ups): A minimum is the floor you pay regardless of use. A true-up is the reconciliation afterwards. Both belong on the record.
- [Price increase caps and uplift clauses](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/price-increase-caps-and-uplift-clauses): A cap bounds what renewal can cost. Without one, the renewal price is whatever is offered when you have least time.
- [Multi-year ramps and contract periods](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/multi-year-ramps-and-contract-periods): A three-year deal is rarely three identical years. Record the schedule, not the average.
- [Unknown pricing, and why it must stay unknown](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/unknown-pricing-and-forecasting): Filling an unknown with last year's figure produces a total that looks certain and is not. Unknown is a legitimate value.
- [Forecastable vs variable spend](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/forecastable-vs-variable-spend): Committed and consumption spend answer different questions. Summing them produces a number that answers neither.
- [Cost categories in vendor spend](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/cost-categories-in-vendor-spend): The same vendor often sells several different things on different terms. One cost shape per vendor is the wrong model.

### Document structure

Which piece of paper does what, and which one carries the money.

- [MSA vs SOW](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/msa-vs-sow): The master agreement sets terms and commits nothing. The statements of work beneath it carry the money.
- [Subscription agreements and order forms](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/subscription-agreements-and-order-forms): The software equivalent of the master agreement pair. The order form is the commitment; the subscription agreement is the terms.
- [Amendments and change orders](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/amendments-and-change-orders): An amendment changes part of an agreement and leaves the rest standing, so the current position is spread across documents.
- [Click-through terms and confirmation emails](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/click-through-terms-and-confirmation-emails): For self-serve software the confirmation email is often the only artefact, and it is a complete record rather than a degraded one.
- [Purchase orders and what they commit](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/purchase-orders-and-what-they-commit): Sometimes the only commercial document that exists. What it establishes, and what it leaves unanswered.
- [Framework agreements and call-offs](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/framework-agreements-and-call-offs): Terms and rates agreed once so purchases can be made quickly later. The call-off is the commitment.
- [Ancillary agreements: NDA, DPA, SLA](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/ancillary-agreements-nda-dpa-sla): Real obligations, no money. They belong on the vendor record and never in a spend total.
- [Which document carries the money](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/which-document-carries-the-money): A relationship is several documents and only some commit spend. Classifying them is what stops a total double counting.

### Keeping a register

Turning all of the above into records a team actually maintains.

- [What to record for every agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/what-to-record-for-every-agreement): The short list of fields that makes a record answer questions, and the longer list that can wait.
- [Building a vendor register](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/building-a-vendor-register): Start from what people already know, add documents as they surface, and keep the gaps visible.
- [Who owns a vendor relationship](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/guides/who-owns-a-vendor-relationship): A record with no named owner has nobody to answer at renewal. What ownership means and how it gets lost.

## Comparisons

Comparisons against named alternatives. Factual claims about other products carry a public source and a verification date on the page itself.

- [All comparisons](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare): Index of comparison pages.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Gatekeeper](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/gatekeeper): The closest incumbent by vocabulary: vendors, contracts, renewals. Built as an org-wide system run by legal and procurement, priced accordingly.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs SpendHound](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/spendhound): The other free option. SaaS-only, connector-driven, and funded by feeding your spend data into a market research dataset.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Vertice](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/vertice): The enterprise SaaS-negotiation heavyweight, and the company that acquired Vendr in 2026. Sells savings outcomes to finance and procurement.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Tropic](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/tropic): Independent procurement platform pairing intake and approval workflow with benchmark data and negotiation services for finance teams.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Concord](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/concord): Affordable contract lifecycle management. Document-first: drafting, signatures, repository. The vendor view is where it stops and we start.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Ramp Procurement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/ramp-procurement): Finance platform whose vendor visibility is a byproduct of being the payment rail. Excellent if everything flows through it; blind where it does not.
- [Vendor Squeezer vs Spreadsheets and inbox search](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/compare/spreadsheets): The real competitor. Free, flexible, and already open, until the renewal auto-fires, the owner leaves, or nobody trusts the numbers.

## Product

- [Home](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com): The vendor and contract overview a business leader can actually use. See every vendor, contract, renewal date, and cost you are responsible for in one organized place.
- [Vendor register](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/vendors): Record every vendor you pay with an owner, what it does and where your team uses it. A vendor with no contract yet is still a complete record.
- [Renewals and notice dates](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/renewals): See every renewal in the order you must act, with the action still open on each: renegotiate, give notice or let it lapse.
- [Contracts and intake](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/contracts): Upload the contract PDF or paste the confirmation email. Check each proposed field against the sentence it came from, then accept.
- [Spend and forecast](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/spend): See committed vendor spend split into forecastable, variable and not yet recorded, per currency, with ramped deals forecast by the current year.
- [Agents](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/agents): Let an agent read your vendor register, find gaps and propose changes. Sensitive changes wait for your approval, and every call is logged.
- [MCP and API](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/product/mcp): Connect Claude Code, Cursor or your own agent to your vendor register over MCP. Ask what renews, what it costs and what is missing.

## Solutions

- [For founders and CEOs](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/for/founders): Know every vendor commitment, renewal date and exit cost before the board or a renewal invoice asks. No procurement team required.
- [For budget owners](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/for/budget-owners): See the vendors, contracts and renewals under your own budget without asking procurement. Your portfolio, not the company's whole list.
- [For finance and procurement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/for/finance-and-procurement): Keep your system of record. Give budget owners a register they will actually read, and stop answering the same vendor questions. Free for finance and procurement.
- [For startups](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/solutions/startups): Track your first fifty tools before they become two hundred. Record self-serve signups from confirmation emails and see every renewal in order.
- [For larger companies](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/solutions/larger-companies): Give each division leader a portfolio of their own vendors over shared records, with budget areas, scoped access and agents limited to one area.

## MCP

An MCP server for one workspace's vendor records is served at https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, stateless, Authorization: Bearer agent key). Server card: https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.

- [MCP use cases](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases): Jobs an agent can do over the endpoint.
- [Ask what renews this quarter, from Claude Code](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/renewals-in-claude-code): Connect Claude Code to your vendor register over MCP and ask what renews, what you can still do and what it costs.
- [Write a weekly renewal digest for your team](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/weekly-renewal-digest): Have an agent read the renewal calendar and findings each week and write a short digest of what needs a decision.
- [Send contracts to the inbox from your agent](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/contracts-from-email): Let an agent find contract terms in your email and submit them to the inbox for review, without creating records itself.
- [Clean up duplicate vendors and missing owners](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/register-cleanup): Have an agent find duplicate vendors and missing owners, then propose fixes you approve.
- [Start next year's budget from your commitments](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/budget-from-commitments): Ask an agent for committed vendor spend split into forecastable and variable, per currency, as the base for next year's budget.
- [Prepare a material contracts list for due diligence](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/mcp-use-cases/due-diligence-contract-list): Ask an agent for every active contract with its value, term and exit terms when an investor or acquirer asks for material contracts.

## Contract types

- [Contract types](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types): What each kind of vendor contract document commits and what to record from it.
- [Master services agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/master-services-agreement): A master services agreement sets the legal terms for future work with a services vendor. It usually commits no money; the statements of work signed under it do.
- [Statement of work](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/statement-of-work): A statement of work defines one piece of work under a master services agreement: scope, price, dates and how it is charged. It is where the money is.
- [Master subscription agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/subscription-agreement): A master subscription agreement is the software equivalent of a master services agreement. With order forms beneath it, it sets terms; on its own, with a stated fee, it can be the commitment itself.
- [Order form](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/order-form): An order form is the commercial commitment under a subscription agreement: what you bought, how many, at what price and for how long.
- [Click-through terms](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/click-through-terms): Self-serve software is bought by accepting online terms. The confirmation email is often the only record, and it is a contract in its own right.
- [Purchase order](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/purchase-order): A purchase order is the buyer's commitment to pay for specific goods or services. Sometimes it is the only commercial document there is.
- [Licence agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/licence-agreement): A licence agreement grants the right to use software, for a term or perpetually. Perpetual licences often come with a separate annual support fee that renews.
- [Engagement letter](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/engagement-letter): Law firms, auditors, consultants and agencies often work under an engagement letter: scope, fees and terms in one document.
- [Framework agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/framework-agreement): A framework agreement, common in the public sector and larger European buyers, sets terms and prices for call-offs. The call-offs commit the money.
- [Amendment or change order](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/amendment): An amendment changes an existing agreement: more seats, a new price or a longer term. It belongs with the agreement it changes.
- [Renewal notice](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/renewal-notice): A renewal notice confirms that an agreement continues for another term, sometimes at a new price. It replaces the previous term in the renewal chain.
- [Reseller agreement](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/reseller-agreement): When you buy software through a reseller, your contract is with the reseller, not the maker. Renewal, price and support terms follow the reseller's paper.
- [NDA, DPA, BAA, SLA and security addenda](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/contract-types/ancillary-agreements): Ancillary agreements carry no commercial terms. Keep them with the vendor for compliance and audits, and keep them out of spend.

## Free tools

- [Notice deadline calculator](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/tools/notice-deadline-calculator): Work out the last day to give notice on an auto-renewing contract from its end date and notice period, and see whether the window is still open.
- [Renewal cost calculator](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/tools/renewal-cost-calculator): Calculate the cost of an automatic renewal after the notice window closes, with the vendor's proposed increase and your contract's price cap.
- [Multi-year ramp calculator](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/tools/multi-year-ramp-calculator): Break a ramped multi-year software contract into its yearly amounts and see why an average annual figure misstates every year's budget.
- [Annual contract value calculator](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/tools/annual-contract-value-calculator): Convert a total contract value into an annual figure from its start and end dates, using the same rule as the product's spend rollup.

## Templates

- [Start a vendor register in a spreadsheet](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/templates/vendor-register-template): Download a free vendor register template: every vendor, what it provides, who owns it, the contract and its notice deadline, in one CSV for Excel or Google Sheets. CSV: https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/downloads/vendor-register-template.csv
- [Track every contract renewal by its notice deadline](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/templates/contract-renewal-tracker-template): Download a free contract renewal tracker: end dates, notice periods, the calculated notice deadline, price changes and your decision, in one CSV for Excel or Sheets. CSV: https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/downloads/contract-renewal-tracker-template.csv

## Glossary

- [Vendor contract glossary](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary): Definitions of the contract terms budget owners meet.
- [Notice period](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/notice-period): A notice period is how far ahead of a contract's end you must tell the vendor you are leaving or changing terms, such as 30, 60 or 90 days.
- [Notice deadline](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/notice-deadline): The notice deadline is the last day you can give notice to stop or change a renewal: the end date minus the notice period.
- [Auto-renewal clause](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/auto-renewal-clause): An auto-renewal clause renews a contract for another term unless one side gives notice before a deadline.
- [Evergreen contract](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/evergreen-contract): An evergreen contract has no end date. It runs until one side ends it, usually by giving notice.
- [Rolling contract](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/rolling-contract): A rolling contract renews itself in periods, often month to month or year to year, until one side gives notice.
- [Fixed-term contract](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/fixed-term-contract): A fixed-term contract runs for a set period, such as one or three years, and ends or renews when that period is over.
- [Termination for convenience](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/termination-for-convenience): Termination for convenience lets one side end a contract without the other being at fault, usually with notice and sometimes a fee.
- [Early termination fee](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/early-termination-fee): An early termination fee is what you pay to end a contract before its term is over, often a share of the remaining fees.
- [Price uplift clause](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/price-uplift-clause): A price uplift clause sets how much a vendor can raise the price at renewal, as a percentage cap, an index or a new list price.
- [True-up](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/true-up): A true-up is a periodic payment that settles the difference between what you committed to and what you actually used.
- [Minimum commitment](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/minimum-commitment): A minimum commitment is the least you agree to pay or use over a period, whatever your actual usage turns out to be.
- [Committed spend](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/committed-spend): Committed spend is what you are contractually bound to pay vendors, whether or not you keep using what you bought.
- [Annual contract value (ACV)](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/annual-contract-value): Annual contract value is a contract's average yearly value: the total contract value divided by the number of years.
- [Total contract value (TCV)](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/total-contract-value): Total contract value is everything a contract commits you to pay over its full term, including one-off and recurring fees.
- [Ramped pricing](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/ramped-pricing): Ramped pricing charges a different amount in each year of a multi-year contract, usually rising from a discounted first year.
- [Co-terming](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/co-terming): Co-terming aligns several contracts or add-ons with one vendor so they all end and renew on the same date.
- [Per-seat pricing](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/per-seat-pricing): Per-seat pricing charges a fixed fee for each user or licence, so the bill grows with headcount.
- [Usage-based pricing](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/usage-based-pricing): Usage-based pricing charges for what you consume, such as API calls, storage or compute hours, so the bill moves with usage.
- [Vendor register](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/vendor-register): A vendor register is one list of every vendor a company or team uses, with what each does, who owns it and what contract applies.
- [Vendor owner](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/vendor-owner): A vendor owner is the person accountable for a vendor relationship: whether to keep it, renew it and what it is worth.
- [Shadow IT](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/glossary/shadow-it): Shadow IT is software a team buys or signs up for without central approval, often on a card, so nobody else knows it exists.

## Policies

- [Pricing](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/pricing): What the product costs and what is included.
- [Security](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/security): The controls the product applies today.
- [Press kit](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/press): Logos, screenshots and approved descriptions.
- [Privacy](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/privacy): How data is handled.
- [Terms](https://www.vendorsqueezer.com/terms): Terms of service.